To start with, a few words about the use of this website

Working with historical facts related to violent persecution and discriminatory social ideologies is very challenging on several levels. This has also guided us in the conception of this website and in the following text we would like to outline and share our thoughts on this.

In remembrance policy work, content that relates to mass deprivation during the Nazi era, as is the case here, is viewed from different positions and from and at different time levels.

Examples of this: sources from perpetrators, reports from survivors, various national lawsuit files, voices from different remembrance policy struggles, statements from descendants of those affected or from contemporary witnesses.

The original sources, which present the perpetrators’ and profiteers’ perspectives, often use terms that reproduce discriminatory and violent language in text, images and sound.

From our point of view, it is important to mark such text passages and images and still try to present the respective social context. In images on this website, we therefore use a mask (see image below) that can only be removed by moving the mouse pointer over the image. In the editorial texts, we would like to draw attention to the fact that this is perpetrator language by placing »quotation marks«. Anti-Semitic, racist and discriminatory foreign names are not shown or written out.

We ask all readers to support us in this regard. Constructive comments and criticism on content and implementation are very welcome.